Jefferson Airplane — Volunteers
This is, to me, the top studio album by Jefferson Airplane. After I play “Bless Its Pointed Little Head,” this one is always next. From 1969, it was recorded before Woodstock and released after...
Category: ’60s
Jefferson Airplane — Crown of Creation
I have had my copy of Crown of Creation forever. (“Forever” for my records generally means I bought it in 1979 or 1980.) I’m sure I got it on the heels of “Worst Of”...
Jefferson Airplane — After Bathing at Baxter’s
Released just nine months after “Surrealistic Pillow” in 1967, “After Bathing at Baxter’s” didn’t produce any followup single hits and thus didn’t do nearly so well on the charts as its predecessor. But it’s...
Jefferson Airplane — Surrealistic Pillow
Sometimes I think I should really take these entries out of order (or in emotional/biographical order), because I shouldn’t embark on the Jefferson Airplane discography without starting with the record that introduced me to...
Tommy James & The Shondells — Cellophane Symphony
As I’ve said in previous entries, in the the spring of 1980, I was all about Tommy James and the Shondells, and all about the ’60s. Clearly, that path had already been made by...
Tommy James & The Shondells — Crimson & Clover
After two greatest hits records, I finally delve into a full Tommy James and the Shondells album, one of three records they put out in 1969. You could say this hits up on the...
Tommy James & The Shondells — Best of Tommy James & The Shondells
If you thought I was done with tantalizing tales of the few months that we lived in Syracuse University’s Seneca Apartments with the last entry, you were mistaken. As I said, I associate every...
Tommy James & The Shondells — Something Special!
It’s possible (nay: probable) that I bought all my Tommy James records in the same few months, during the spring semester of 1980, because I associate every one of these albums with an apartment...
Elmore James – Blues After Hours
I’ve already written about how my first impressions of Elmore James actually came through a song by Eric Burdon from his solo career, in which he bemoans the loss of the blues great in...
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